Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 - Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture

Zusatztext ''Postal Plots sheds light on the significance of letters in Victorian fiction by firmly rooting them in social contexts and offering a range of stimulating close readings.'' - The Review of English Studies Informationen zum Autor Laura Rotunno is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Altoona, USA, where she is also the Honors Program Coordinator. She has published in Victorian Literature and Culture and Victorian Periodicals Review. Her research interests include professionalization and education as it developed throughout the Victorian period. Klappentext By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Zusammenfassung By 1840! the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction! however! were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. Correspondence Culture 2. Mr. Micawber, Letter-Writing Manuals, and Charles Dickens's Literary Professionals 3. Feminized Correspondence, the Unknown Public, and the Egalitarian Professional of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White 4. From Postmarks to Literary Professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate 5. Telegraphing Literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four Conclusion: Undelivered Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements 1. Correspondence Culture 2. Mr. Micawber, Letter-Writing Manuals, and Charles Dickens's Literary Professionals 3. Feminized Correspondence, the Unknown Public, and the Egalitarian Professional of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White 4. From Postmarks to Literary Professionalism in Anthony Trollope's John Caldigate 5. Telegraphing Literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four Conclusion: Undelivered Bibliography Index

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''Postal Plots sheds light on the significance of letters in Victorian fiction by firmly rooting them in social contexts and offering a range of stimulating close readings.'' - The Review of English Studies

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• Authors: L Rotunno, L. Rotunno, Laura Rotunno
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781349458806
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45880-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern